Knee problems forced Ireland’s most capped hockey player out of the international game, but Eimear Cregan told Alan Good the future of the sport is bright.

ALL five of Munster’s Irish Hockey League representatives need to collect points this weekend, if they are to harbour realistic semi-final ambitions.

Ireland’s Jenny McAuley has finished 21st in the women’s mountain biking event at the Olympic Games in Athens.

The Irish team is in action in mountain biking, show-jumping and the women’s 10,000m event at the Olympic Games in Athens today.

MARIE DAVENPORT will have the rare experience of going to the line in a healthy state for a major championship when she goes in the final of the women’s 10,000m at the Olympic Stadium tonight.